Our little swimmers

At the last swimming lesson in December, the boys were the only ones who showed up. They are both making a lot of progress and I think the hour a week that Nick spends at the Y in the pool is his most favorite hour of the week. I need to take them more often just to swim. As of right now, Nick has no interest in other sports, but I think swimming could be his thing. Nick can swim the length of the Y pool with no flotation devices. Alex is doing great, too. Alex is very interested in signing up for other sports- mainly basketball or baseball so we are going to try to work on those this spring and summer- at home!

OOOOOOH- it's halloween...

We spent our Halloween evening at church and had a great time! Nick and Alex really enjoyed all the games- especially doing the cake walk with Grandma and Grandpa Bradley. Halfway through the evening, the boys went with Grandma and Grandpa to trick or treat in their neighborhood and Ryan and I stayed at church to take over the cake walk. We discovered we had a lot of cakes left so we were choosing two or three winners each time. And some of the kids kept winning over and over. I'm not sure their parents were thrilled about taking home three or four whole cakes or plates of cookies or cupcakes. Nick and Alex were both thrilled with all their treats from the evening and spent a long time that evening sorting and counting!

Happy Fall!

We are, we are, drug free!

Red Ribbon Parade! Nick's class dressed like football players and cheerleaders. Once again, we heard 'I am not going to do that' referring to letting Mrs. Blackmon paint black lines under his eyes. Alex's class wore red and I'm not sure what their theme was. But the boys had fun marching in the parade and chanting the slogan. They got to ride the bus from their school over to the high school and then walk all the way to the track and twice around the track. Alex was very tired last night although Nick told me this morning Alex got up during the storm and got into bed with him last night.

Party time!

To avoid World War 3 at our house, I asked Grandma and Grandpa Bradley to go to the fall parties at school. We switched off. I went to Alex's party for the first half while they were at Nick's. Alex's class had a lot of treats and he was having lots of fun sitting at his desk and opening all the goodie bags. I found out he loves fruit roll-ups. I never think to buy those. He also got to go decorate a cookie with Mrs. Brown. After I left the party, Grandma and Grandpa said he got to play hot potato with a pumpkin. When he got out, he went over and sat by them and said 'that's okay, I wanted out anyway so I could sit by Grandpa.' Nick also had lots of goodies at his party. He was eating the icing off of a cupcake when I got down to the room. They played pass the pumpkin and made Halloween masks. Nick just stuck a bunch of random letters on his mask. I guess he was the letter man. Then he wanted to show me 'his' books and read a book to me.

Making Pizzas

We were at the store buying supplies for pizza and I told the boys they could make their own. Nick said 'I am not going to do that. I can't do that. I've never done it before. No way!' This seems to be a theme lately. Guess what? He did do it and he loved his sausage pizzas. I think he made one ham pizza, too. Alex made pepperoni pizzas with green peppers.

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